Coastal Profile Crossings
- Author: Andres Payo & Olaf Conrad (c) 2020
- Menu: Terrain Analysis | Coastal Morphology
Description
The Coastal Profile Crossings tool identifies the crossing points between coastal profiles along a reference coastline (from CliffMetrics Normal outputs) and any other coast lines and calculates the distance and coastline differences metrics.
Parameters
| | Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints |
|---|
| Input | SeaSide Profile Lines Layer | shapes, input | LINES_SeaSide | - | - |
| LandSide Profile Lines Layer | shapes, input | LINES_LandSide | - | - |
| Coast Lines Layer | shapes, input | LINES_Coast | - | - |
| Output | Crossings at Sea Side | shapes, output | CROSSINGS_SEASIDE | - | - |
| Crossings at Land Side | shapes, output | CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE | - | - |
| Distances to profile start point | shapes, output | DISTANCES | Distances > 0 if towards sea side (acretion) and < 0 if towards landside (erosion) | - |
| Options | Parent Attributes | choice | ATTRIBUTES | attributes inherited by parent lines layers | Available Choices:
[0] index
[1] attributes
[2] index and attributes
Default: 0 |
Command Line
Usage: saga_cmd ta_cliffmetrics 1 [-LINES_SeaSide ] [-LINES_LandSide ] [-LINES_Coast ] [-CROSSINGS_SEASIDE ] [-CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE ] [-ATTRIBUTES ] [-DISTANCES ]
-LINES_SeaSide: SeaSide Profile Lines Layer
shapes, input
-LINES_LandSide: LandSide Profile Lines Layer
shapes, input
-LINES_Coast: Coast Lines Layer
shapes, input
-CROSSINGS_SEASIDE: Crossings at Sea Side
shapes, output
-CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE: Crossings at Land Side
shapes, output
-ATTRIBUTES: Parent Attributes
choice
Available Choices:
[0] index
[1] attributes
[2] index and attributes
Default: 0
-DISTANCES: Distances to profile start point
shapes, output